Vancouver’s Green Guys
If you’ve been watching our Canucks in the playoffs, you had to notice those two green guys. The Green Men who mock opposing players as they sit in the penalty box, became infamous after their gyrating performance for penalized Nashville Predators became a YouTube classic last December.
They have their own Facebook page here, The Green Guys Behind The Canucks Penalty Box, with over 45,000 friends (a little more than all of Moose Jaw).
The Green Men were revealed by the Vancouver Sun as British Columbia Institute of Technology students Ryan Sullivan and Adam Forsythe, whose Green Men alter-egos go by Sully and Force.
The inspiration, according to Sully in an interview with Nucks Misconduct:
After watching an episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” which is where the Greenman originates from, we both looked at each other and I do believe we actually yelled “Eureka” at the same time. It was a little weird, but we knew it was fate. We knew we had to become Greenmen and go to a Canucks game. As for hesitations, there was a few … I mean we aren’t really wearing anything so that was a concern… and the first game we went to, it was about minus-5, so as we walked from our car to GM Place, it was quite tempting to bail out. I’m sure glad we didn’t though!
You can read more about the Green Men on the Canucks’ Web site.
April 18th, 2010 at 11:37 am
The Green Geeks sure worked well last night as the Canucks fell 3-2 in OT. Can they play tough defence? Sign ‘em.
The defence still can’t handle big tough forwards on opposing teams,and are generally too slow to catch the really speedy players.
The Canucks should have won that game, they had LA on the ropes early on, but in what has become a Vancouver tradition, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory once again.